“I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children.”

Orson Hyde – 18 March 1855, Journal of Discourses – Volume 2 (Liverpool, England: F.D. Richards, 1855), 210.